Mercuria returned to the Asian loan market for its annual revolver at the end of last year. But this time round the trader upsized the facility by nearly twice the debt...
What will be the key words for financing trade this year? If last year was all about resilience and pivoting will this year be picking yourself up, dusting yourself off,...
TXF’s series of local events around Europe at the end of last year prompted plenty of debate around ECA product and policy. The main takeaways from these hybrid sessions...
The export credit agency (ECA) offering has evolved and proved ever resilient in 2021, with yet another buoyant year for the market. But there are still several updates -...
EXIM Hungary upped its lending activity and added new loan schemes to its product suites in 2021, and was also elected to the Berne Union Management Committee. TXF spoke...
As the end of 2021 nears, TXF takes a look at current trends and challenges in commodity trade finance and their implications for 2022.
As the energy crisis worsens, a multitude of issues surrounding ESG arise – will consumers be able to afford the price hike? And will the recent retreat of investments in...
TXF spoke with Robert Suter, head of international relations & business policy at SERV, and Irene Gambelli, a senior adviser on international relations at SACE, in their...
How to build resilience into the global supply chains that have not proved robust over the pandemic has been a top issue for trade in 2021. COVID, climate and...
TXF's global trade report 2021 is available to download now.
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) took centre stage at COP26. Although initiatives like GFANZ will unlock further capital for green infrastructure,...
TXF wants to hear from ECAs, banks and borrowers, importers and exporters, in a bid to paint an up-to-date picture of the ECA landscape and garner marker sentiment via...
With widespread disruptions in the trade supply chain and a growing trade finance gap, particularly impacting smaller businesses, a recently released report calls for...
TXF caught up with the Berne Union’s new ECA committee chair Isabel Galdiz (US Exim), vice-chair Yuichiro Akita (NEXI), and Berne Union ECA committee manager Didem...
TXF’s top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global 2021, are here.
In this fortnight’s Stages for Change instalment, TXF’s Aife Howse speaks to Allen and Overy’s Catherine Lang-Anderson, who heads up the firm’s trade and commodity...
Much has happened in the commodity trade finance sector over the past two years. Here, Mihai Andreoiu, corporate finance & treasury advisory, head Redbridge Switzerland,...
TXF spoke with Christina Westholm-Schroder, sovereign & BU vice president, to outline the effects of the pandemic on collaboration within the export finance industry, how...
In this week’s edition of the Stages for Change interview series, Sabine Vigneron and Angie Dorschel discuss the power of coincidence, working together to champion small...
The plethora of pledges emerging apace from COP26 are expected to spur a spate of emerging market corporate issuance in the capital markets. But with green finance taking...
TXF spoke with Darren Chua, head of M&A and Commercial at PT Asian Bulk Logistics to find out why ECA support is less competitive for the firm on projects and what exposures and investments are on its books.
Tobias Behringer, head of finance advisory, Siemens Financial Services, discusses his role in the transformed Siemens organisation as part of the connective tissue for banks, ECAs, and MDBs. He’s got a zeal for mobility projects, particularly sustainable ones, and the role of equity investments through SFS too. What will shift the needle for longer tenor financing in sustainable infra projects? Should ECAs cover technology risk (spoiler, the answer is yes)?
STX Group has closed a repeat of its pioneering 2023 environmental commodities borrowing base deal – and it is bigger, bolder and has more banks. How did the trader overcome risk perceptions, a knowledge gap and widespread concerns around greenwashing to reach financial close?
There was a clear mantra echoing through the conference plenary room at Exile Asia: Agency, Energy and Infrastructure Finance last week. Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.
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